Notes

!SOURCE: "Genetic Antecedents of Captain John Whipple" in the Whipple Blog at
https://blog.wh
ipple.org/2020/05/genetic-antecedents-of-captain-john.html. The post by Dr.
Charles M. Whipple asserts that the parents of Captain John Whipple were John
Whaple/Whaples and Mary Collett. He was baptized under the Whaples family name
on 13 December 1618 in the St. Mary and St. Lawrence Church of Great Waltham,
Essex County, UK.

!SOURCE: "The Whaples Family of Great Waltham, Essex," chart from Debrett sent
in 1990, email from Charles M. Whipple (undisclosed at example dot net) to Weldon Whipple,
11 May 2020. "John Waples; baptized 13 December 1618 Great Waltham; ?emigrated
to America 1632?"

!SOURCE: Blaine Whipple, 15 Generations of Whipples: Descendants of Matthew
Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Abt 1590-1647volume 1. John is
not mentioned in his brother William's will, transcribed on page
1004:

1646 Whaples, William Great Waltham 165 BW 58

Twelth
day January 1643 Caroli Regis decimo nono (19). I William Whaples of Great
Waltham (one of the sonnes of John Whaples of the same parish).... Being sick,
etc.... My crofte or p'cell called Warditche to Robert Whaples my brother
forever.... Rents and proffitts of said land to my loving mother until Robert
come to 21.... John Bernard the elder of Kings in Great Waltham should occupy
said land paying rent to my said mother. To Thomas Whaples my brother term of
years I have in two p'cells of land called Barne Croft & Buttons and the
orchard of my fathers.... I am endebted unto Francis Tanner of Great Waltham he
have & enjoye all residue of my goods, etc. he paying my father twenty
shillings within 3 months he to be executor. Wit: John Barnard and Thomas
Parker. Proved 19 Apr 1645.

!SOURCE: "Seeking the Origins of Captain John Whipple of Dorchester
MA/Providence RI" in the Whipple Blog at https://blog.whipple.
org/2018/10/seeking-ancestry-of-captain-john.html. The post cites several
emails from Dr. Al Church (undisclosed at example dot net) of Washington, DC, exploring
the possibility that young John Whipple of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and
(later) Providence, Rhode Island, might be the same person as John Whaple or
Whaples, who was baptized on 13 Dec 1618 at St. Mary and St. Lawrence Church in
Great Waltham, Essex, England.

!SOURCE: Blaine Whipple, 15 Generations of Whipples: Descendants of Matthew
Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Abt 1590-1647, volume 1 (Baltimore, MD:
Gateway Presss, 2007), p. 999: "The child John does not seem to have died in
infancy, and the fact he was the only brother not named in [his brother]
William's will does indicate he could well have been the ancestor [i.e. Capt.
John Whipple of Dorchester/Providence]. ... The baptism of a John Whaples at
Great Waltham in 1618 does more or less agree with our information that the
emigrant [John Whipple of Dorchester/Providence] was aged 15 or 16 in 1632."

John was born around the year 1617.
Debrett uncovered the name of only one individual whose christening was close
to that date. His name was John Whaple, baptized 13 December 1618..."

Debrett
sent me that information in 1990 long before the Fiske article appeared.
Perhaps Fiske's guess was wrong, and the two families are not related. John
Whaple could have spelled his name Whiple at one point in his life? As you are
aware, even the educated spelled their names in a variety of ways. Or as was
typical at Ellis Island, the immigration authorities could have misspelled the
name.

!SOURCE: Email from Charles Whipple (undisclosed at example dot net) to Weldon Whipple, 20
Sep 2008. John was "buried in 1685 [in his home gravelot and reburied in the
North Burial Ground] in about 1750."

!SOURCE: The following primary sources of information were supplied by Charles
Whipple (undisclosed at example dot net) to the Whipple Website, 1 Aug
2008:

Place of birth of John Whipple: According to his
gravestone, John was born circa 1617/18. "Only one individual whose christening
was close to that date was discovered. His name was John Whaple baptized 13
December 1618 at Great Waltham, Essex--about 15 miles south of Bocking--the son
of John Whaple and Mary Collett. As yet, no firm evidence has emerged which
proves beyond doubt that the John baptized in 1618 was either the ancestor or
related to the Bocking Whipple family." [Debrett Ancestry Research Limited
(Gordon Road, Winchester, SO23 7DD, England, March 1990) p. C] There is
absolutely no published primary research data that proves that John Whipple was
born in Milford, Wales--or anywhere else. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A
History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple of Dorchester, Massachusetts and
Providence, Rhode Island: A Multigenerational Study of the First Whipple
Family in America (Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing Company, 2007) 2 &
34.

First evidence of John Whipple's presence in America: "September
16, 1632, being the Lord's Day. In the Evening, Mr. Pierce, in the ship Lyon
arrived and came to an anchor before Boston...." [James K. Hosmer, ed.,
Governor Winthrop's Journal. 1630-1649 (New York: Scribner and Sons,
1908) 1:92. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and
Sarah Whipple... 2 & 33.

First record of public activity in
America: "3 October 1632, John Wipple and Alex Miller were ordered to pay
fines of 3s, 4d to their master Israel Stoughton, for wasteful expenditure of
powder and shot." [Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed. Records of the Governor and
Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 6 volumes in 5 (Boston: W.
White, 1853-54) 1974] [John O. Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode
Island (Albany, NY: 1887; Reprint ed, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing
Company, 1978) 221.] As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain
John and Sarah Whipple...1 & 33.

Church membership at
Dorchester: Sarah Whipple, on 29 October 1641, addressed as "Goodwife
Whipple," one of the lowest social class distinctions, was admitted to the
Dorchester church. [Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New
England, 1636-1734 (Boston: George H. Ellis, 1891) 6.] John would have had
to be a member by then, as freemen were required to be members of the church.
It is believed that the record of John's admittance to membership was taken to
Connecticut in 1635/36. "There is little hope of finding these ancient records
either in Windsor or in Dorchester." [Records of First Church, iv &
xi]. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah
Whipple... 6.

Record of John Whipple's public life in Dorchester:
"Astonishingly, only twice in almost two decades does John's name appear in
public records." John Whiplle was the last proprietor to sign a fencing
agreement [Dorchester Town Records, City Document 9, report 4, 1880, p.
27]. He was mentioned in an estate in 1656. [New England Historical and
Genealogical Society Record, Vol. 6, 1852, p. 41.] [Robert C. Anderson, The
Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1632-1633, 3 vols.
(Boston: New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 1995) 3:1974.]. As
quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah
Whipple... 9.

John Whipple sold his 45 acre Dorchester property, 15
November 1658: "John Whipple, carpenter...his now dwelling house and housements
scituate and being in Dorchester near the river Naponset together with
thirty-seven acres of upland more or less thereto adjoining, also eight acres
of salt marsh more or less lying near the place commonly called the penny
ferry." Suffolk Land Records, Deeds, 14 vols. (Boston: 1880-1906)
3:204-05. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and Sarah
Whipple... 16.

Church membership at Providence: "Was it
coincidence that one month after the proclamation of the death penalty for
Quakers, 19 October 1658, John sold his property...and began preparation to
leave for Rhode Island, the only safe haven in New England for members of that
sect? However, it is just as conceivable that Captain John could have become
disenthralled with religion in general." Irvin Richman, Rhode Island, Its
Making and Meaning (New York: B.P. Putnam Sons, 1908) 292.

"He was
received as a preacher at Providence in 1659." This quote, which appears only
in [Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, 3 vols
(Chicago: J.H.J. Beers and Company, 1908) III:1639] is an apparent
miss-reading, by the compiler or editor, of the well known statement that
appeared in earlier histories, "He was received as a proprietor at
Providence in 1659." There is no record that Captain John Whipple or his
children were members of the clergy. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A
History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 15-16.

Captain John
Whipple's tavern: John's short lived, one room, Inn was not "staid or
sober," nor was it a particularly popular meeting place as chronicled in
previous histories. That honor belongs to John Whipple Junior's tavern. At
least three of John's children and four grandsons owned more popular taverns.
However, John's was the best known of the two earliest taverns. [Gertrude
Kimball, Providence in Colonial Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
1912) 126. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of Captain John and
Sarah Whipple... 23.

John Whipple's military title: His title of
"Captain" was strictly honorary. There is no record that he or his compatriots,
including Roger Williams, used a weapon against the warring Indians of 1675/76
(the Indians refused to take up arms against Williams), or ever led a group of
men into battle as an officer. [Early Records of the Town of Providence,
21 vols, collected and compiled by the Record Commissioners (Providence: Snow
and Farnham, city printers, 1892-1915). XV:153.] As quoted in: Charles Whipple,
A History of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 25.

Last Will and
Testament: John's last Will and Testament was flawed, which allowed his
grandson, John Whipple III, to win a law suit against four of his Whipple
uncles. They had to pay him hundreds of dollars to retain their inherited
properties. [The Early Records of the Town of Providence, 21 vols, collected
and compiled by the Records Commissioners (Providence: Snow and Farnham, city
printers, 1892-1915) XX:274-75.] As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History
of Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 25-27.

The deaths of John and
Sarah Whipple: John and Sarah's gravestones were carved around the year
1750, subsequent to the removal of their remains to the North Burial Grounds.
Sarah died in 1666, being dead then for approximately 85 years before her
gravestone was carved. Moreover, John would have been dead for approximately 65
years in 1750. A lack of accurate and complete cemetery information was the
result. Those who had access to the truth were long since deceased themselves.
Well-meaning descendants, likely their grandsons, Deputy Governor Joseph Junior
and his brother, John, were insufficiently prepared to carry out Captain John's
1682 directive to their father to see to it that "I be decently buried." It
must be pointed out that John and Sarah's gravestones are recognized to be the
earliest dated in the cemetery. [John E. Sterling, North Burial Ground, Old
Section, 1700-1848, Special Publication #5 (Providence: Rhode Island
Genealogical Society, 2000) xii. As quoted in: Charles Whipple, A History of
Captain John and Sarah Whipple... 28-31.

!IMMIGRATION: "Banks lists John Whipple of Bocking, Essex County, England, in
1632, as a passenger on a ship called 'The Lyon.' This ship: with Mr. William
Peirce as Master, sailed from London, June 22, and arrived September 16th at
Boston." Charles M. Whipple, Jr., Sons and Daughters of Jesse: A 360 Year
History of the Whipple Family (Oklahoma City: Southwestern Press, 1976), p. 10.
The same reference says he married Sarah They? or Darling? about 1639. (The
quotation might actually refer to RIN 5890 or 5933 [father and son John
Whipple, who were born in Bocking, Essex, England]? Neither 5890 or 5933 had a
wife named Sarah They or Darling.)

!BIRTH: Philip Currier, The Currier Family Records, v.4, p. 12, shows Captain
John born in Bocking, Essex, England, on 19 Dec. 1588. (Being born in Bocking
would seem to refer to one of the Ipswich Whipples. -- Weldon Whipple)

!RESIDENCES: In 1658, John sold his house and some 40 or 50 acres of land in
Dorchester, Mass., to James Minot, and soon after moved with his family to
Providence, R.I. Land was granted to him in Providence in July 1659, and he was
admitted as an inhabitant. --Nancy Cluff Siders (undisclosed at example dot net) to
the Whipple Family discussion list (undisclosed at example dot net.edu), 5 Apr
1997, citing "The Steere Genealogy" by James P. Root, 1890.

!SOURCE: Reprint of the "Brown genealogy of 1851," submitted to the Whipple
Website by Ian Mackie, 20 Oct 2003.

!OCCUPATION: Carpenter by trade. --Brown genealogy of 1851.

!SOURCE: Mail from Charles M. Whipple, Jr., to Weldon Whipple, 8 Dec 2006.
Estimates marriage in 1638 or earlier (previously entered as 1639/40) based on
the Early Records of the Town of Providence, XVII:53-4: "On 24 Nov 1684, John
junior made a declaration that he was 45 years old at the time, making his date
of birth 1639." Thus his parents likely married in 1638 or earlier.

Headstone of Captain John Whipple

In Memory of
Capt. John Whipple who
was Born in England &
Died in Providence-Town
ye 16th day of May. Anno
Dona[?] 1685
About 68
Years of age

Captain
John Whipple is buried in the Whipple family plot in the North Burial Ground on Main Street in Providence, R.I.
Secondary sources indicate that John and his wife Sarah were initially
buried in the garden burial site near their home. Their bodies were moved
to the North Burial Ground when it was established in 1700.

The headstones of John and his wife Sarah are located approximately 48
feet WSW (west-south-west) of the
"Dahlia Path" sign in the
cemetery.